Work the shortining, salt, baking powder and flour to a meal grain. Add enough cold water to make a stiff dough. Divide into 2 or 3 portions. Roll as thin as a pie crust and cut into squares.
Have the broth at a rolling boil. Drop about 12 dumplings in at a time, cover and boil slowly until cooked. (About 5 min). Continue to add dumplings 12 at a time in this manner until all the dough is added. Cook about 20 min. Stir as you add new dumplings from the bottom with a large spoon. Be careful not to break dumplings.

Notes

Old southern recipie. Eat with hearty chicken meal and then go run around the block a dozen times.